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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year olds life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

I'm inclined to agree, though I'd like to see Sanders get a shot the infighting really could screw the pooch.

I just don't want to think about who that might leave as winner from among the Republicans.

I really hope it's not Walker. He set my state back decades. Actually managed to reverse many long established labor rights, and funding for education is down the shitter too. I suspect that the "bomb threat" called in to the state capital was a move to prevent real debate on a budget defunding of our open access to information laws, but info on the investigation has been hard to find.

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You can't get out backward. You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting. If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation." - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing. It does something else entirely, or nothing at all. It's like voting."- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019